**SriArif Mohammed Khan is a leading statesman, intellectual, writer and Muslim progressive, who resigned from Rajiv Gandhi’s council of ministers, in protest against its conservative stance in the Shah Bano case. A law graduate, he led the Aligarh Muslim University Students Union. He held various ministerial responsibilities at the Centre from 1983-84 to 1989-90. He has authored a bestseller, Text and Context - Quran and Contemporary Challenges.

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